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bordage [< Cdn F < F bord river bank + -age] 
n. See 1807 quote.
See also: ice-shelf (def. 2)
- 1807 The ice on the rivers in Canada acquires a thickness of two feet and upwards and is capable of supporting any degree of weight. That on the borders of the St. Lawrence, called the bordage, sometimes exceeds six feet.
- 1849 We pushed it over the bordage, and launched it in the current. . . .
- 1898 It was to the packing of these leagues of bordage ice . . . that the winter rise of the water was attributed.
- 1807 The ice on the rivers in Canada acquires a thickness of two feet and upwards and is capable of supporting any degree of weight. That on the borders of the St. Lawrence, called the bordage, sometimes exceeds six feet.